Language Design: Unified Condition Expressions – Introduction
soc.me
Idea

A design that subsumes the various syntactic forms of

  • if statements/expressions
  • switch on values
  • match on patterns and pattern guards
  • if-let constructs

and scales from simple one-liners to complex pattern matches.

    • socOP
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      4 days ago

      Good catch, that should have been if person in the first line.

      It’s been a left-over from when syntax looked like this:

        is Person("Alice", _)$person then "{$person.age}"
  is Person("Bob", $age)       then "$age"